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L R Kass

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PubMed1971

Death as an event: a commentary on Robert Morison.

1) We have no need to abandon either the concept of death as an event or the efforts to set forth reasonable criteria for determining that a man has indeed died. 2) We need to recover both an attitude that is more accepting of death and a greater concern for the human needs of the dying patient. But we should not contaminate these concerns with the interests of relatives, potential transplant recipients, or "society." To do so would be both wrong and dangerous. 3) We should pause to note some of the heavy costs of technological progress in medicine: the dehumanization of the end of life, both for those who die and for those who live on; and the befogging of the minds of intelligent and moral men with respect to the most important human matters.

Death↗
PubMed1970

Segregation of functional sex factor into minicells.

The segregation of a bacterial plasmid, the sex factor F', has been investigated in a cell-division mutant of Escherichia coli which produces small anucleate cells (minicells). Significant amounts of isotopically labeled DNA segregate into minicells dependent upon the presence of F'. Minicells containing F'Gal or F'(lambda) are shown to donate the plasmid in conjugation. These results demonstrate that the sex factor may be dissociated from the bacterial chromosome and that this separation does not prevent its subsequent transfer.

Carbon Isotopes↗
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A right to exit?

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Euthanasia, Active, Voluntary↗
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Is there a right to die?

To speak of rights in the very troubling matter of medically managed death is ill suited both to sound personal decisionmaking and to sensible public policy. There is no firm philosophical or legal argument for a "right to die."

Ethics↗